
Health & Science
Sharks aren’t just for boys: Gills Club inspires aspiring female biologists
It’s no secret that there are fewer women than men in a lot of STEM fields. One group is trying to target that problem by inspiring ...
5 years ago
Listen 4:37Game developer wants to take her cultural critique to Congress
Brianna Wu has been outspoken about sexism in male-dominated video game culture. Brianna Wu has loved video games ever since she w ...
5 years ago
Listen 5:06Why are kids today so anxious?
Anxiety disorders are rising in kids. In their weekly conversation, psychologist Dan Gottlieb and WHYY’ ...
Air Date: March 20, 2017
Listen 00:03:25Novelist Zora Neale Hurston was a cultural anthropologist first
The celebrated novel ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God’ grew from fieldwork in the Black South. Before novelist Zora Neale ...
5 years ago
Listen 9:55Creativity: Life From the Inside Out
Dr. Dan Gottlieb explores the role of psychology in creativity through the lives of artists. He looks at Van Gogh’s struggle with menta ...
Air Date: March 17, 2017
Listen 00:50:30DRBC says it’s still weighing gas drilling rules, but no decision on the horizon
5 years ago
Troubled oil recycler cited for hazardous waste violations
A Wilmington oil recycling plant fined last month by a federal judge for environmental crimes was issued a cease and desist order Monday ...
5 years ago
Should we talk about our health problems?
People share LOTS of very personal health information online these days – with virtual strangers – ...
Air Date: March 13, 2017
Listen 00:03:29This week, Derrick focuses attention on the contributions of minorities and women to the field of astronomy. There are many birth ...
Air Date: March 13, 2017
Listen 00:05:25Remembering Thomas Starzl and the frenzied work that advanced organ transplants
Thomas Starzl, whose death at age 90 was in the news last week, was the most driven man I've ever met.
5 years ago
Empty chairs at the cancer center: The threat of ACA repeal
I spend a lot of time in the place no one wants to be — the cancer center. Every two weeks I’m there with my husband. He is the p ...
5 years ago
Seriously, leave your earwax alone
In healthy people, earwax is self-cleaning. “It’s a useful thing,” says Fuad Baroody, an ear, nose, and throat s ...
5 years ago
ListenBugs on bodies: how flies can help and hurt a crime scene
It’s difficult to gross out David Rivers, a professor of biology at Loyola University Maryland. He’s a forensic entomologist, ...
5 years ago
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